Apportionment Data

The fundamental reason for conducting the decennial census of the United States is to apportion the members of the House of Representatives
among the 50 states. A state's resident population consists of those persons "usually resident" in that state (where they live and
sleep most of the time). A state's apportionment population is the sum of its resident population and a count of overseas U.S. military
and federal civilian employees (and their dependents living with them) allocated to the state, as reported by the employing federal
agencies. Based on the Census 2000 apportionment, each member of the U.S. House of Representatives represents an average population
of 646,952.